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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1939
Page
5
Baltimore Philadelphia and Chicago markets show cattle hogs calves sheep and poultry price ranges. Lamb and yearling trends mixed with steady to higher hogs and fat cows weaker on certain weights. Strongest bids in Chicago and Baltimore for fed steers and vealers amid open-market receipts.
A brisk buying surge centered on rail equipment aircraft and related stocks lifted the market after hesitancy. War baby shares posted 1 to 3 point gains before late-session lull. Brokers credited expected repeal of the arms embargo and a busy congressional agenda for the turn.
Union Pacific 101 U S Steel 78 Va Caro Chem 5 3 8 Va Car Pad 30 1 2 Western Union 36 1 2 Woolworth 38
Demand slow across Winchester Martinsburg and nearby points with carloads and truckloads at f o b usual terms. Baskets and boxes list varieties including Jonathan Grimes Delicious McIntosh Rhode Island Greening and others with prices from 40 to 1.15 per bushel or per hundredweight depending on size condition and location.
Chicago prices bounced from an early decline to close with gains as Short covering and milling demand supported wheat. Securities strength and the withdrawal of Fed bond support drew trader attention while futures quoted for September December and May contracts across wheat corn oats soybeans and rye.
Chicago cash grain reports list prices for wheat corn oats and barley with No 3 red wheat at 88 1 4 to 89 1 4 and corn No 1 mixed 57 1 2 to 58 1 4. Baltimore spot domestic wheat 87 cents per bushel and corn 70 cents per bushel with year ago comparisons.
The Star lists daily market prices for patents and bran varieties, including 12 lb bags at 5.30 to 5.80 per barrel and 24 to 98 lb bags with prices shown. Also includes feed items such as mixed feed, meal, and poultry costs with assorted per bag or per sack pricing.
A fragment shows various bag sizes and prices for feeds and commodities including 12 lb, 24 lb, 48 lb, and 98 lb bags, patented brands, and items such as chick grower turkey grower butter horse feed scratch feed country lard and geese products. It reads like a catalog page with some garbled entries.
Robert St. John reports from Budapest that Warsaw radio went silent early today after a shelling blast sounded through its mic. The station had broadcast grim siege updates and appeals to Britain as German bombardment intensified, leaving Europe to wonder about Warsaw’s fate.
Berlin reports quotes Propaganda Minister Goebbels denying any intention to violate Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, or Czech protectorates. He calls British propaganda childish and insists Germany remains firm in its war aims while dismissing uprisings rumors in Bohemia and Moravia.
In Dyersburg Tennessee on September 21 Edwin Ballentin twenty four armed himself with a pistol and killed Miss Minnie Hunt sixteen before turning the weapon on himself after an all night standoff with officers and friends. Deputy Sheriff L O Reed reported the sequence of events. Ballentin shot a mascot before officers intervened.
Nine vessels held in New York Harbor by a seamen strike over war risk bonuses and insurance are cleared to sail. The plan provides a 25 percent wage increase for voyages to Europe and the Mediterranean, return transportation if ships are lost, up to $150 for lost personal effects, and protection for sailors on trial. Curran announced continued talks on a bonus for sailors on American port to war zone routes.
Soviet forces report new advances along a broad front with Grodno taken near the East Prussian border. Kovel and Wilno areas are described as under Red Army control, while claims include large Polish troop losses and captured matériel.
Mr. Walter, who forecloses Jeeter Lester's mortgage, has been in the Tobacco Road production since it opened in 1933 and has never missed a performance.
Trustees will offer at public auction in Winchester Virginia on October 21 1939 at noon to the highest bidder a one third undivided fee simple interest in eighty eight acres of unimproved building lots formerly part of the Fannie B Dunlap Estate with twenty eight acres in Winchester and sixty acres in Frederick County near Handley School. One third cash on sale day and balance in one and two years with two bonds at six percent interest. Includes life estate of H B Dunlap and waiver of homestead exemption.
W H Bowers Texaco manager on Frederick Street reports two armed youths robbed him of 50 dollars in cash about 9 am. They forced him into a small room, then fled in a small truck with Maryland plates. Police hunt the two suspects based on Bowers description.
A British white paper from London reports the German reply to Britain’s September 3 ultimatum refuses to receive accept or fulfill British demands. It says Germany will answer any aggressive English action with the same weapons and form and that Britain rejected Mussolini proposals that might have saved peace.
The largest collection in the world, over 250 species, is housed at Troutbeck estate in Amenia New York, owned by the late Joel E Spingarn. The site is noted as the country’s biggest assemblage of clematis.
Testimony showed J Earl Metz and Louis Barry defended unloading to keep traffic flowing on a narrow street. Judge Donald Weems dismissed the charge with a warning, urging cooperation to keep the sidewalk open while trucks unload.
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